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Crossref’s 2025 Annual Report, published as a blog post with a DOI rather than a standalone designed PDF. Covers the year’s governance, finances, programmes, and community highlights. Issued with DOI 10.64000/hsdpk-8cm70.

A short film marking 25 years since Crossref was incorporated on 19 January 2000. The video traces a quarter-century of open infrastructure for scholarly communications — from the founding members and the first DOIs registered, to today’s network of 25,000+ members and 180 million records.

We’re equally sad and proud to report that Rachael Lammey is moving on in her career to the very lucky team at 67Bricks. Her last day at Crossref is today, Friday 16th February. Which is too soon for us, but very exciting for her!

It’s hard to overstate Rachael’s impact on Crossref’s growth and success in her 12 years here. She started as a Product Manager where she developed that role into a broad and central function, and soon moved into the newly-formed community team as International Outreach Manager where she grew important programs such as Sponsors, Ambassadors, a series of ‘LIVE’ events around the world, and she went on to manage her own team and establish some of the most important strategic relationships that Crossref now feels fortunate to have.

Our colleague and friend, Kirsty Meddings, passed away peacefully on 10th December at home with her family, after a sudden and aggressive cancer. She was a huge part of Crossref, our culture, and our lives for the last twelve years.

Kirsty Meddings is a name that almost everyone in scholarly publishing knows; she was part of a generation of Oxford women in publishing technology who have progressed through the industry, adapted to its changes, spotted new opportunities, and supported each other throughout. We hope this post will do justice to her memory in our profession.

Please help us welcome new faces at Crossref! Martyn, Sara, Laura, and Mark joined us very recently and we are happy they’re with us. Both Martyn and Sara have joined the Product team and this has given us the chance to reorganize the team into the following groups: content registration, scholarly stewardship, scholarly impact, metadata retrieval, and UX/UI leadership. Laura joined the Finance and Operations team to help make the billing process simple for our members. Mark joins the Technology team and one of his projects will be improving the Event Data service.

It is exciting to already see the impact of your contributions and look forward to what’s to come!

Crossref’s 2018–19 Annual Report, published as ‘The Fact File’ — a figures-first summary of membership growth, content registration, retrieval activity, governance, and finances across the year. Issued with DOI 10.13003/y8ygwm5.

Our friend and colleague Christine Hone (née Buske) passed away in May from a short but brutal illness. Here is our attempt at ‘some words’, which we wrote for her funeral book and are posting here with her husband Dave’s permission.

We are devastated to lose Christine as a colleague and friend. It’s hard to put into words the effect she had on our small organisation in such a short time, and how much we’re already missing her. But here it goes.

A retrospective booklet marking ten years since Crossref was incorporated on 19 January 2000. Originally published in 2010 in English and Japanese editions, the booklet documents the founding decisions, the early DOI deposits, and the growth of the membership through the first decade of cross-publisher reference linking.